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Show Rebuttal To Arguments For Arguments For Proposition A o. 1 o opposing argument was submitted.) The Legislative General Session Would Start One Week Later To Allow Consideration of the Budget Using More Fiscal Data Up-To-- Date Up-to-d- ate fiscal data is currently not available until ijture precious littie time to consider budgetary matters. This oon would move the beginning date of the session to one week later, gp. :ng the Legislature a much needed extra seven days at the end of the session toconsiderthe budget using more accurate ficur re-- , i The Legislature Would Have 60 Days to Consider Overriding a Governors Veto Currently, the constitution provides no time limit on when the Legislature may consider a governor's veto. This re-would require the Legislature to consider a vetoed item within 60 day s after the session in which that item was pas'ed. This would prevent a future legislature from overriding a veto that took place months or even years before the override atdeadline, but tempt. The Legislature now by rule sets a ay rules can be changed by a simple majority vote. v 60-d- T he Senate Would Have More Time to Consider Judi- cial Appointments The Senate now has 30 days to consider a judicial appointment made by the Governor. The Legislature is part time and meets only once a month when not in session. On these monthly meetings the Senate will generally meet to consider the Governor's appointments. Sometimes the Senate will have only a day or two to consider the nominee before the ay ay limit ends. This revision would extend the limit to 60 days, to give the Senate adequate time to consider these important judicial appointments. This would enable the Senate to consider these nominees at its regularly scheduled monthly meeting and not he forced to meet in a special additional meeting at taxpayer expense while not unduly delaying 30-d- 30-d- an appointment. All Legislative Terms Would Begin on the Same Day Currently, there are two conflicting provisions in the constitution. One states that legislators terms begin on the first Monday of January the other states that they begin on the first day of January. This revision simply clarifies this ambiguity and provides that all legislative terms begin on the first day of January. Senator Lyle W. Hillyard 175 Fast First North Fogan, Utah 84321 |